Dirtbags Nearly Comeback on USD Closer, Fall 4-2

Tuesday, April 22

San Diego, Calif.

3:00 PM

Long Beach State University

23-15

San Diego

32-11

Long Beach State

San Diego

Brandon Godfrey drove in six runs for LBSU.

4/22/2008 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

April 22, 2008

Box Score

SAN DIEGO-- No. 25-ranked Long Beach State sent the tying run to the plate in the ninth, after being baffled by Ricardo Pecina (4-2), as AJ Griffin survived a shaky 1.1 innings to send No. 9-ranked San Diego (32-11) to a 4-2 victory over the Dirtbags (23-15).

Pecina was forced from the game ain the eighth, after giving up a Kip Masuda's two-out single, and a walk to Jonathan Jones, after the lefthander struck out a career-best 11 and retired 12 in a row prior to Masuda's second hit of the day.

The next four outs for Griffin were not easy, as he gave up a two-strike, two-out RBI single to Steve Tinoco in the eighth and a solo home run to Shane Peterson, to make it 4-2, to lead off the ninth inning.

Griffin then surrendered a one-out, pinch-hit double to Brandon Godfrey and then had to get a groundout and a strikeout to preserve USD's 13th victory in a row. It was Griffin's ninth save of the year.

Pecina surrendered just four hits, prior to Griffin giving up three hits.

San Diego took a 1-0 in the third inning against Brett Lorin (2-3), after the LBSU righthander retired the first eight batters of the game. Sean Nicol's two-out single, followed a two-out double by Jose Valerio and a walk, which gave USD a 1-0 advantage.

Lorin then gave up two more runs in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Victor Sanchez and a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.

Tyler Topp then surrendered a run in the fifth, with two outs, after Lorin went the first four innings giving up three runs on four hits.

LBSU returns home to host Pacific for a three-game series this weekend, beginning on Friday at 6:30 p.m.